<p>Illinois -</p>
<p>Overrated: UChicago (I’m sorry, but there are people closely affiliated with the university who have said it is overrated for undergrad at least… these are not students applying), UIUC (Good for grad school, not for undergrad)
Underrated: Loyola University-Chicago, Knox</p>
<p>Maine lol</p>
<p>Overrated - University of New England: People here think it’s better than it is.
Underrated - University of Maine - Orono: Nobody from my school wants to go there, though it is decent. College of the Atlantic: Also a very good school that few know about.</p>
<p>Ohio:</p>
<p>Overrated: “THE” Ohio State University. Flagship - heavily hyped because of athletics. Academics are okay, not the best (good medicine, engineering, and pharmacy schools though)</p>
<p>Underrated: University of Cincinnati. Just visit it and thats all. Great atmosphere, academics are vastly underrated, great facilities. UC is ranked as a top 25 public research university in the US. Awesome co-op program (4th in nation), engineering, top 5 design school, top 10 music school, 40th best medical school (better than most publics), 32nd best pharmacy school, top 50 law and business schools. Top 5 criminal justice school. I don’t get it how they’re ranked 156 by US news at the moment… kinda sad especially when they have academics to prove it - Miami isn’t even comparable (no medschool, no pharmschool) and has a healthy ranking of around 70. </p>
<p>I attend Case Western… which I would say is overrated for its tuition.</p>
<p>California:
OVERrated: Berkeley</p>
<p>Its funny how some of its undergrad students think its HYPSM. The kids are not anymore talented than their USNWR rank gives them credit for. The UC education system isn’t designed for world class students. </p>
<p>UNDERrated: CalPoly SLO</p>
<p>Its a great college at a great price. It would rightfully ranks with the midtier UCs. Its students are strong and the skills it teaches practical.</p>
<p>Florida:
Overrated: UF, HOLY CRAP, UF. Sure, it’s a great school but PLEASE, stop having such a superiority complex about “being a public ivy hurr durr” (like 80% of the people in the IB class of last year went to UF, I’m not even kidding). </p>
<p>Underrated: FSU because of the inevitable comparisons to UF that UF always needs to win. New College because no one at my school cares about it :(.</p>
<p>It might just be my school though.</p>
<p>CALIFORNIA:</p>
<p>Overrated: The soon to be private UC system
Underrated: The CSU system</p>
<p>Berkeley overrated? CAL has one of the strongest undergraduate programs amongst public institutions in the US! Other UC’s are great in certain areas but Berkeley is one of the most solid across the board. It is also one of the top public grad schools in the world. I’m not going there but to deny this based upon ones feelings about the City of Berkeley or its past is just silly. Equally as absurd is the notion that the UC system isn’t designed for world class students. The only weakness in the UC system is too many undereducated Californians’ who think they deserve to go a college like CAL just because live or grew up in California. Thankfully CAL has their own method of weeding out such people by dropping advanced Calc and Chem bombs on them.</p>
<p>New York: </p>
<p>Overrated: NYU, many people from out of state want to go there because its in NYC, until they see it has the highest tuition in the country, and gives bad financial aid. The only stand out things about NYU is Tisch and Stern. </p>
<p>Underrated: You guys may think I’m crazy but Cornell. Its the most underrated ivy, so much people don’t even think its actually an ivy league school. But, in actuality it is the hardest school within that group, and has one of the best engineering programs in the country. Another one is City College of New York (CCNY), is a really good public. So good it was once known as “The poor man’s Harvard”. Lots has changed since then, but the school has really good professors. Sadly, people look down on it because its apart of the CUNY system.</p>
<p>New Jersey</p>
<p>Over-rated: The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)</p>
<p>Under-rated: Stevens Institute of Technology</p>
<p>Ohio:</p>
<p>Overrated: “THE” Ohio State University. Flagship - heavily hyped because of athletics. Academics are okay, not the best (good medicine, engineering, and pharmacy schools though)</p>
<p>Welcome DownQuark, please don’t be offended if certain posters (cough<strong>Sparkeye7</strong>cough) call you an OSU "hater"for daring to criticize their beloved OSU (or as they call it tOSU). Yes, you would think on CC that using the vernacular of a twittering 13 year old would not be present. Sadly, it is.</p>
<p>(New York)</p>
<p>Overrated: Princeton
Underrated: Cornell</p>
<p>I guess NY annexed Jersey. We are now down to 49 states. :-)</p>
<p>Ohio State Unveils 5-Year Enrollment Plan</p>
<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio / NBC4
By Tanya Hutchins
Published: September 14, 2010 </p>
<p>The second largest public university in the country wants to get even bigger. Ohio State University unveiled a new enrollment plan with a big vision: to bring in more, better qualified students to all of its campuses.</p>
<p>OSU wants to increase enrollment by 2,700 students by 2015, including 1,300 more freshmen, 500 more transfer students, 500 more students on regional campuses and 400 more graduate students.</p>
<p>“If we achieve these goals, and we plan to do that in five years, this will put Ohio State at the very top of the Big 10 and among the very best public research universities in the world,” said Dolan Evanovich, Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Planning at OSU.</p>
<p>But Evanovich said it is about more than just numbers. He said more students are applying and being accepted to OSU than in years past. About 6,600 freshmen will start classes Sept. 22. That number is a projection. Final figures will be availalbe about 15 days into the fall quarter.</p>
<p>For the Columbus campus, OSU plans to increase several characteristics of incoming freshmen by 2015, including raising average ACT score to 29. The university also wants 96 percent of students to rank in the top quarter of their high school classes, improve the freshman retention rate to 95 percent and the six-year graduation rate to 80 percent, up from 74.9 percent in 2009.</p>
<p>Special emphasis will be put upon recruiting students from other countries and other states. Currently, 27 countries are represented in this year’s freshman class and 45 states are represented. Non-Ohio residents make up 20 percent of the class.</p>
<p>The average projected SAT score for Autumn 2010 is 1235. Five years ago, it was 1195 and it was 1155 10 years ago.</p>
<p>Evanovich said, “This year, Ohio State will welcome the best prepared class in university history to the Columbus campus.”</p>
<p>Source: [Ohio</a> State Unveils 5-Year Enrollment Plan | NBC 4i](<a href=“http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2010/sep/14/3/ohio-state-unveils-5-year-enrollment-plan-ar-231931/]Ohio”>http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2010/sep/14/3/ohio-state-unveils-5-year-enrollment-plan-ar-231931/)</p>
<p>
Berkeley is one of the most frequently cited overrated universities in this thread and the undisputed leader in California. I would go on to argue that the university is possibly the most overrated institution in the nation if not the world. </p>
<p>As Californians, many of us exactly know what we’re talking about when we say Berkeley is overrated. We are skeptical toward the school’s high business and engineering rankings. The nature of the overcrowded learning environment (that greatly dilutes the weight of leading professors) limits the quality of Berkeley education. The best public school is still lacking.</p>
<p>At large, I don’t think critics doubt Berkeley’s rank 22 USNWR ranking. Berkeley is a decent school and deserves that much. However, many of us don’t take Berkeley’s departmental (or world) rankings seriously. Regardless of area of study, many people don’t think Berkeley is a peer to the Ivy League or even universities such as JHU or Northwestern. </p>
<p>Those who find Berkeley a peer to these colleges are the reason critics find the university “overrated” and not because they think Berkeley isn’t a good school.</p>
<p>stop saying csu’s are underrated, most of them have an average SAT math/verbal score of below 1000, meaning most of the students at CSUs are below the average of the entire population.</p>
<p>that said:</p>
<p>overrated:
berkeley and usc, many people have brought the reasons up
uc irvine because every irvine student in the uc transfers forum whines about rankings non-stop and thinks their school is better than ucsd
i’d say ucla is slightly overrated because people always say “wow you must be so smart to have gotten in” whenever i say i go there and you don’t have to be that smart to get in at all</p>
<p>underrated:
ucsd and ucsb because people focus on the social life or lack thereof and not the academics
cal poly slo, very good school as people have mentioned</p>
<p>Tennessee</p>
<p>overrated: Vanderbilt
underrated: N/A</p>
<p>State: SC
Underrated-uh…yay south carolina?
overrated: furman.</p>
<p>California
Overrated: University of Southern California
Underrated: Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Scripps, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna</p>
<p>Overrated: UW
Underrated: WWU</p>
<p>“OSU wants to increase enrollment by 2,700 students by 2015, including 1,300 more freshmen, 500 more transfer students, 500 more students on regional campuses and 400 more graduate students.”</p>
<p>Guess from Overrated, OSU can go to “Oversized.” I figure they will pilfer the extra students from non-OSU state schools like Wright State and Shawnee State, who get pennies to OSU’s dollars in state budgets. They have to…That or OSU’s administrators can’t read birthrate/live birth stats from 1997, 1998, etc. Ohio isn’t exactly a “growing” state for employment and private investment, much less significant population growth. Must be a Midwest thing, drive your oversized SUV to your oversized state university’s oversized stadium to tailgate and eat oversized brats.</p>
<p>No surprise on the regional campus’ increase. Marion, Lima, etc. have always been the non-competitive admission “backdoor” to OSU, so it stands to reason they would grow.</p>
<p>Bigger doesn’t equate to better in many cases, folks. This is especially true when you get that McMansion heating bill this winter.</p>